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STORY: UNICEF / ROHINGYA RETURN
TRT: 02:55
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTION: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 JANUARY 2018, KUTAPALONG, BALUKHALI MAKESHIFT CAMPS, COX’S BAZAR AREA, BANGLADESH / FILE
FILE – UNICEF – DECEMBER 2017, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
1. Arial shot, camps at Cox’s Bazar
2. Wide shot, camps at Cox’s Bazar
24 JANUARY 2018, KUTAPALONG, BALUKHALI MAKESHIFT CAMPS, COX’S BAZAR AREA, BANGLADESH
3. Wide shot, Forsyth walking with UNICEF colleagues through the Balukhali camp
4. Various shots, Justin visiting a makeshift building which houses a UNICEF supported Adolescent girl’s group, where he listens to two of the members stories
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Forsyth, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF:
“I just met two young women, adolescent girls who told me terrible stories of rape, of terrible killings. One woman told me how her seven-year-old son was killed with a knife and the father was shot. They have marks on their faces from knifes. When I asked her about whether she will be happy to go back home, she said they cut my face, but next time they might cut my heart. They do want to go home, but they cannot and won’t unless the situation in Myanmar improves. They need safety and security, they need to go home voluntarily with dignity. And they need to have humanitarian support when they get there. And organizasions like UNICEF at the moment can’t provide that. So they are going to stay here until the situation in Myanmar improves.”
6. Various shots, Justin visiting a UNICEF support Child Friendly Space and observes activities and chats with youth about their lives
FILE – UNICEF – DECEMBER 2017, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
7. Various shots, view over hills of camp
8. Wide shot, young girl holding a bucket
9. Wide shot, man with a baby in arms
10. Close up, baby smiling
11. Med shot, man with a child in arms
12. Various shots, children at clinics
The United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today warned that improved security and unimpeded humanitarian access in Myanmar are essential before Rohingya children can be returned from Bangladesh.
The vast Kutupalong camp shelters many of the 688,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled across the border from Myanmar’s Rakhine State following an outbreak of violence there in late August last year. More than half of the refugees are children.
According to the UNICEF, Some 58 per cent of the refugees are children, many of whom are still traumatized by their experiences of violence.
During his visit to Cox’s Bazar, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Justin Forsyth said that the refugees need safety and security and to go home voluntarily with dignity when the situation gets better in Myanmar.
UNICEF also concerned that as rainy season approaching, there will be health challenges ahead.
UNICEF is one of a range of international and national agencies working alongside the Bangladeshi authorities to provide services and support to the refugee population and nearby host communities. Working with partners, UNICEF has dug hundreds of water-bore wells, installed up to 16,000 toilets, helped immunize nearly a million children and adults against cholera, screened 335,000 children for malnutrition, and provided learning for nearly 80,000 children.
Even so, waterborne and other diseases are a constant threat in the overcrowded camps, which need to be urgently decongested to ensure basic facilities reach all inhabitants. Currently, up to 100 people must use a single latrine and water supplies often run short.
More must also be done to protect vulnerable children from traffickers and other dangers and to provide psychosocial care to those who are still traumatized by the experiences that drove them from their homes.
Learning and recreational spaces for children have been expanded rapidly, but still fall well short of the needs. Nearly 220,000 children are currently deprived of an education.
